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obferved. In fine *T2“CnDN, or lafrCTlDtf, muft 
be compofed of QIDN, aserim, (the Phoenician 
name of one of the kings of Tyre, (17) according to 
Menander Ephefius) and “ion, hammar, ipse do- 
minvs j the term Tj, mar, entering into the com- 
pofition of certain fimilar ( 18) names. Now aserim- 
HAMMAR being equivalent in Phoenician to the Greek, 
or rather Egyptian, sarapion ; the deity deno- 
minated sarapi, or sarapis, in Egypt, muff 
have afiumed the name of aserim at Tyre, as from 
the infcription now before me may be very fairly in- 
ferred. 
VIII. 
That the firfi: letter of the third line is Mem, and 
not He, as M. l’Abbe is pleafed to affirm, both the 
form itfelf and the fenfe of this part of the infcrip- 
tion feem evidently to prove. The figure here is al- 
together the fame with that of the eighteenth element 
in the preceding line, and confequently muff be allow- 
ed to reprefent Mem. The fenfe alfo evinces 
this, beyond the poffibility of a doubt. For, I be- 
lieve, it will be no eafy matter to prove the reality of 
M. l’Abbe’s word p:n, or at leaf! to render it intel- 
ligible here. But with refpedt to the word p, which 
I take the two firfi: letters to form, equivalent in Sy- 
riac to the (19) Latin qvi (eft), or is qvi (eft), it 
(17) Menand. Ephef. apud Jofeph. Cent. Apion. Lib. I. 
(18) Matth. Hiller, ubi fup. p. 602, 603. 
(19) Buxtorf .Lex. Chald . id Syriac, p. 301, 302. 
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